FWIIW, I have been trying to develop a aircraft (Designed with the XR5 in mind) tug. However I have run into some major bugs with the towing animation (Trying to get some realistic operation), so the project is on hold.

Would it be possible to make an mfd that simply smoothly accelerates you to a set, low, ground speed, like there were electric motors in the undercarriage? Airbus is developing a similar system to enable aircraft to taxi with only their APU running.

Umm,wow 98 posts? I knew you guys were working on this I never knew it was this close to completion...like release tomarrow? Wow I better read this thread and get caught up. I like what Ive read so far..this is truely a awsome airport. One of a kind. Nice work

Looks great! It could probably use some consoles or something to help flesh out the appearance

If you take a look at the pic from inside the control room of the TA hangar, you will see a basic mock control desk. The Tower will have that kinda thing. The scale of the control tower room in the pic is very misleading however, it looks a lot smaller than it is.

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I would assume this Tuesday otherwise they would say Tuesday week or next month or something like that.

Apologies for the in-joke, I thought everyone on this forum knew that a 'Tuesday' release means:

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This eta spans from next Tuesday till the end of time

So please, no more release date excitement, this project is far from finished unfortunately.

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Secondly, will there be any mechanism for taxying your spacecraft around?

Discussion of that topic, which has almost derailed this thread lol, is one I am looking into, as I too don't like using rocket power. Personally I think the self-powered vessel option (basically engines with no contrails) would be the most elegant solution, but that means the addon devs need to code a patch or whathaveyou. Alternatively, I can also picture a detachable jet pod used for ground manoeuvres; velcro rocket type thing. Although if someone was going to make a working tractor tug, I would vote for this type:

Thirdly, I saw that Grover mentioned having a radar display in the control tower......

It's not something I'd planned, my to-do list is long enough already. I certainly don't plan to add any interactivity to the control rooms, beyond MFDs, so basically no working VC. But if the idea was done through an mfd, then it would be useable and welcome.

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I have new project.Google is offering virtual tours for museums.
In reply I will create virtual tour for WIN Ultra :D
I will however of course require early access to the test version of the base. Nothing needs to be functional except for the interior decoration :3

Interesting idea. But don't get too ahead of yourself, the base is a good way off completion, and any such project I would only really want done with the finished product, rather than with a beta test. But if you still want to do some PR when it's released, then feel free!